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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 6 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: April 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], Later from New Orleans. (search)
to her thousands of warm hearts, they will now with due humility pay this tribute to the memory of one whose name will long remain among us as a religious example for the living. The Baton Rouge correspondent of the Delta furnishes the following: The Confederates, numbering some two or three hundred cavalry, under the respective commands of Capt Bryan, Capt Henry Gentles and Capt Bob Pryme (all late residents of this town,) ambushed a squad of the 4th Wisconsin Cavalry, under Lieut Williams, whom they killed, and wounded one or two others. Two of Bryan's men were captured — Pughes and Hough. Hughes had his horse killed, and therefore surrendered. The object of the raid was to pick up men and mules, (horses would not be objected to,) and we believe they were tolerably successful. They even came to open daylight, under the very nose of the videttes, and took mules and teams from Gen Bernard's plantation, now occupied by Goodale &Co, situated close to the city limits.
The Daily Dispatch: April 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], Later from New Orleans. (search)
of them was out with Colonel Clarke, and the overthrow of Gates was so sudden and so unexpected that they had not time to reinforce him.--In Gates's whole army we are confident there was not a Yankee company. There certainly were no Yankees with Marion and Sumter, and they were the men who had most to do with the tories in South Carolina. Nor were there any Yankees in Green's army when he took command. That army was composed, at Guilford, of the Maryland Line, under the command of Col. O. H. Williams, part of the Virginia Line, General Huger's South Carolina regulars, a part of the North Carolina Line, the cavalry of Cols. Lee and Washington, and the militia of Virginia and North Carolina. The whole force numbered 4,500 men — a considerable army in those days — and there was not a company of Yankee soldiers among them.--The battle of King's Mountain was won by militia from North and South Carolina and Virginia. Certainly there were no Yankees there. The battle of the Cowpens was